Jaenara Belarys

@Craving Peaches We were on the verge of greatness, we were this close to having an actual conversation.

Would someone be able to track down one of these older Dany hate threads? I really want to read through one.

Imagine how interesting it would be if Planetos humans were spreading out into the solar system and colonizing the next solar system over (with a habitable planet) with Albucierre warp drives and antimatter ships capable of 1 g acceleration. Think Braavos, Myr, Lorath, Pentos and a few others were colonizing and terraforming Planetos's Venus equivalent, Volantis is colonizing and terraforming the Mars equivalent, the slaver states have managed to invent the warp drive and begin colonization of the other habitable planet in the other solar system. Though it would make sense for the Braavosi or Myrish to invent it, I just bounced it to the Ghiscari because it would be interesting to see the dynamics of a colonial slave state in interstellar space. In space, where every kilogram counts, it would probably be seen as a mark of status to own an entire household of slave servants. I must sound like I'm nuts.

I didn't even think about the Unit 731 in the context of the protomolecule experiments. Reading about those guys was not pleasant, it sounded more like little kids torturing bugs than actual human beings. It's sad as hell, and you guys are saying that they have a shrine? Probably because like Jaime, we could get inside their heads.

Yeah, probably, but then we have to figure out why the rituals need fire and blood.

Maybe it was a big generation ship blowing up.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

The Roci's a fine ship, though if it has the keel mounted railgun, it makes me wonder why Mars didn't install it on their own frigates. Amos is always "that guy" and Prax is sweet. Bobbie is the GOAT. Do you like Mars, Earth or the Belt in the show?

YO, another Expanse fan?! What's your favorite ship and faction? Mars, Earth, beltalowda?

Set spies? That's a job?

Probably a combination of all of them. He sees the shitshow he's got with all the plotlines and wants to finish his work as it deserves. He's probably thinking about how if he releases it right now, people will be pissed because such and such contrivance or whatever. Plus, he's got a bunch of TV projects, F&B 2, Dunk and Egg all on his plate. He might get us TWOW, but we will never see Dream.

It very much does considering that Jon was saved by her, when she could've very well as just ignored the message and let a problem die. It's her fight, but she doesn't have to fight it at Winterfell. Jon's the one who gave it away, Dany said IIRC that she would come and fight for the North (without a word in that conversation about the independence). Jon doesn't say a damn thing about "hey, I gave our independence away to Dany for saving my ass." Tbh, no, IMHO. Who has the dragonglass? Dany. Who has the dragons? Dany. Who has the massive army? Dany. It's probably a likely situation to sit at the Neck, with a bunch of troops, dragons and wildfire and just handle it there.

lmao, bro

@Tyrosh, @SaffronLady, so if the humans are from another planet, does that mean that the Others are aliens?

When I was watching that, I was throwing a hissy fit not because they didn't immediately worship her, I was pissed because they just seemed so damn arrogant and ungrateful for someone who lost a dragon and is committing a nice part of her army to come save your dumb ass. I've despised show northerners ever since. I wanted her to just tell Jon to fuck a duck and just defend the Neck.

Yep. They all just sound so similar. If you're willing to risk your sanity, you might read through a bunch of their posts and see. Where do they make it? That's true, but you would think a person who could only come here occasionally would try to have some fun, rather than have a dozen people whack their arguments to bits. They all seem to simply not notice the amount of ridicule they get when they post, and they agree with everything the other says. And before you say the vacuum chamber thing, even people who agree on a lot of things can misinterpret passages of a book or something like that. I agree with my dad on a lot of things, but we still read a lot of situations very differently.

He did do a public service. I think for Arya's situation, "dislikes" is a bit of a weak word to say. She killed the insurance guy (who IIRC, she thought was grouchy or something, but for killing him it was "just following orders") Raff, she's had a big grudge against for a long time and Dareon is somewhere along the lines of disliking him for the Lanna thing and vigilante justice for desertion of the NW and his companions.

I remember one of the trolls literally saying that he supported slavery. I still think it's just one random basement guy, with a bunch of different accounts. Note that they have a relatively low post count (a couple hundred) as compared to people like Craving Peaches, Varys, Curled Finger, SeanF, me (with thousands of posts, I'm on the low spectrum with only around 2k posts), etc. They all have extremely similar writing styles, never seem to give out evidence and seem oblivious to the scorn they get.

Bro, this thread is BIZARRE. It's like everyone vs Lord Varys (who has some very strange opinions....) While I find Arya being 11 and already having a pretty good kill count pretty disturbing, I feel like most of the early kills were something that she might not necessarily like or enjoy (like killing the guard), the insurance guy is a bit disturbing. For Raff's death, I don't really have a problem with his death. He's a douche, and if he was in our world I would happily put him in a gas chamber and watch him squeal (Chiswyck's story is vile, I have no sympathy for any of them after that). For Dareon, I feel some sympathy for him being trapped in a position at the Wall, but considering how he treated Sam, it kind of makes me dislike him. Can confirm, as a guy around that age. Something we agree on.

No, but it does seem like he's just digging himself into a deeper whole every time he comes back with hundreds of heads of people who might not even be what he's looking for. Yeah, makes sense. I always love to read about the worldbuilding and then sit around and think whether or not it would work. GRRM's worldbuilding always makes me crack up sometimes. I'm assuming you're talking about the Blackwoods and the Brackens? It sounds more like it was because one house usurped the other as the local king. The Brackens say one thing, the Blackwoods say that "The Blackwoods were kings in those days. The Brackens were petty lords, renowned for breeding horses. Rather than pay their king his just due, they used their gold to hire swords and cast him down." (ADWD 704). The Brackens say a similar story, just turned around, Lord Bracken's story about it is on page 698.

True, but it would still make logical sense for Aegon in the beginning of his reign to clear out a large area that he can draw upon manpower, crops and taxes. Also, with the exception of Maegor, the first century of Targaryen rule wasn't by complete idiots.

I know that I make plenty of mistakes with commas and occasionally misspelling, but I at least try. On the topic, though, why did the Targaryens never try to expand the Crownlands farther in the riverlands, stormlands, etc? If they did that, they can have a wider direct tax base, be able to call on more troops, more resources, lots of other things.

I would prefer to not get into this spat since it seems like Aldarion is handling it fine, but for the love of God, please at least try to use proper grammar and punctuation. It's hard to read/take seriously your entire post when it reads like a kid wrote it.

I have landed with an army to purge you from my lands and rebuild Valyria! Though there seems to be much water.

I shall, and I will build an army to take back my rightful place as ruler of the table!